Gerold Holzer

Gerold Holzer (born December 17, 1957 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian orthopedist and university professor.

Live and act

After attending the Second Federal High School in Klagenfurt , he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1986. From 1987 he began his training as a general practitioner and later as a specialist in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery at the University Clinic for Orthopedics of the University of Vienna - General Hospital, where he is still active today.

In 1995 he was visiting professor at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Yamagata University in Japan. In 1997 he received a scholarship from the “Max Kade Foundation” in New York and spent 1997 to 1998 as a research professor at the University Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and at the Orthopedic Research Laboratory of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, USA. In 1997, Dr. Holzer was elected to the “Board of National Societies” of the “European Foundation for Osteoporosis” and later to the “International Osteoporosis Foundation”. Since 2002 until today he is a member of the “International Osteoporosis Foundation European Union Consultation Panel”.

In 2002 he completed his habilitation in orthopedics at the University of Vienna and became an associate professor. Between 1999 and 2006 he was visiting professor at the University Clinic for Orthopedics at the Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, USA and at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. During the Austrian EU Presidency in 2006, he was a consultant to the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health and Women in order to prepare a Council Conclusion of the EU Commission on "Osteoporosis". Since 2010 he has been organizing regular training seminars on “osteoporosis” for the “Austrian Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery”. In 2015, Holzer also dealt with war crimes and war invalidity in the project "War = daDa" by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater and, from the orthopedic surgeon's point of view, also dealt in particular with war injuries and the associated medical measures that as in the case of the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, which led to the amputation of the right hand.

Holzer is now senior physician for orthopedics at the Vienna General Hospital and associate professor for orthopedics at the Medical University of Vienna . His clinical and scientific focus is osteoporosis . Between 1975 and 1977, Holzer was five-time Austrian national swimming champion.

Awards

In 2009 he was named “Researcher of the Month” at the Medical University of Vienna. In 2010 he became an honorary member of the "Slovak Society for Osteology". In 2012 he was elected to the international panel of experts of the Singapore National Medical Research Council.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Gerold Holzer on the website of the Medical University of Vienna
• Rethinking osteoporosis. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 18, 2009

Publications (selection)

To date (as of 2015) Holzer has contributed to around 80 scientific publications. Holzer also holds two patents.

• G. Holzer, G. von Skrbensky, LA Holzer, W. Pichl: Hip fractures and the contribution of cortical versus trabecular bone to femoral neck strength. In: J Bone Miner Res . tape 24 , 2009, p. 468–474 , doi : 10.1359 / jbmr.081108 (English).
• P. Peichl, LA Holzer, R. Maier, G. Holzer: Parathyroid hormone 1-84 accelerates fracture-healing in pubic bones of elderly osteoporotic women. In: J Bone Joint Surg Am . tape 93 , no. 17 , 2012, p. 1583–1587 , doi : 10.2106 / JBJS.J.01379 (English).